1 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich — active participant in the October Uprising in Petrograd; was commandant of the Smolny — Tauride district, chairman of the commission for the struggle against pogroms, banditry and counter-revolution. In 1917—1920 — manager of affairs of the Council of People's Commissars.

2 This concerns an assassination attempt on V. I. Lenin on the night of December 31, 1917 to January 1, 1918, when he was returning from a rally accompanied by Swiss communist F. Platten. F. Platten shielded Vladimir Ilyich's head and was wounded in the arm.

On the night of January 2 (15) to 3 (16), 1918, an extraordinary session of the Council of People's Commissars took place, at which the question of opening the Constituent Assembly and the assassination attempt on V. I. Lenin were discussed. The Commissars congratulated V. I. Lenin on his deliverance from the danger that threatened him. The Council of People's Commissars recognized it necessary to issue a warning that "the workers' and peasants' government will answer with terror if there are repeated cases of assassination attempts on representatives of the Council of People's Commissars" (TsPA IML at the CC CPSU).

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## EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH M. S. URITSKY

[January 5 (18), 1918]

*To Uritsky:*

At what time was the volley fired? 10? Around 10? What part of Shpalernaya? Between Liteinaya and Znamenskaya? Near Liteinaya in the direction of the Tauride—

*Approximately at 10¼—10½ between Voskresen­skaya and Tavricheskaya on Shpalernaya. The glass shattered on the left side. The volley was from above, apparently from the right. M. U.*

Answer here! Lenin

1 M. S. Uritsky was appointed in November 1917 as commissar over the "All-Russian Commission on Elections to the Constituent Assembly." The note was written on the day of the opening of the Constituent Assembly.

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## NOTE TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

[January 1918, not earlier than January 7 (20)]

Of course, they must be arrested. And to convene the Central Executive Committee, send this note to Sverdlov.

Lenin

1 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich in his note informed V. I. Lenin of the anarchistic actions of a group of sailors — participants in the murder of the ministers of the Temporary bourgeois government A. I. Shingarev and F. F. Kokoshkin in the Marinskaya Hospital on the night of January 6-7, 1918, asks for V. I. Lenin's opinion on the arrest of the sailors and proposes to convene a session of the Central Executive Committee in connection with these events (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Works, vol. 50, pp. 25-26, 411).

2 Y. M. Sverdlov — chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

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## NOTE TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

January 8 (21), 1918

*To V. D. Bonch-Bruevich:*

Find out how things stand with the arrest of the murderers. Is it true that Kreis doesn't want to be handed over?

Lenin

1 Kreis — sailor-anarchist, one of the participants in the murder of the ministers of the Temporary bourgeois government A. I. Shingarev and F. F. Kokoshkin.

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## DIRECTIVE TO L. N. STARK

January 8 (21), 1918

*Comrade Stark!*

On the basis of a communication from Comrade Radek, I request that you contact Comrade Shotman (member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs) regarding the provision of radio for the most important communications of the Petrograd Telegraph Agency.

Lenin

1 L. N. Stark — worker of the Press Bureau at the Council of People's Commissars; from January 13 (26), 1918 — commissar of the Petrograd Telegraph Agency.

2 R. M. Radek — assistant to the secretary of the International Department of the Council of People's Commissars.

3 A certificate to A. V. Shotman on his appointment as a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs was signed by V. I. Lenin on the same day, January 8, 1918.

4 Petrograd Telegraph Agency.

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## EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH F. E. DZERZHINSKY

[January 9 (22), 1918]

Why are you not giving a draft decree (1) on the complete prohibition of the export of machine oil and the like to Finland? (2) on an audit commission for control? (3) on the sending of agents to Tornio to catch smugglers?

1 The correspondence of V. I. Lenin with F. E. Dzerzhinsky took place at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on January 9 (22), 1918 during the discussion of the question of imports and exports from Finland. F. E. Dzerzhinsky — chairman of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle Against Counter-Revolution, Sabotage and Speculation under the Council of People's Commissars (Cheka).

3 The matter concerns the struggle against smugglers and speculators on the Swedish border at Tornio — the only place at that time connecting the Soviet Republic with the outside world.

We came to you today with a report on this matter.

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## NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

January 16 (29), 1918

The Russian subject Samuel Hatkin (Samuel Hatkin), who lived in 1906 in Riga and became acquainted there with Platten, who vouches for him, requests permission to enter Russia. I request that you permit him to enter.

Lenin